Nokia N80 Mobile phone

All-singing, all-streaming super smart phone!

The "multimedia" features on most mobiles stretch as far as shooting a few snaps and playing back a couple of songs. Putting that to shame, this 3G smart phone, based on Nokia's S60 operating system, has Wi-Fi, a three-meg camera and a built-in media server that you can use to stream music, pictures and movies around your home.

The music player supports both MP3 and WMA tracks - including protected ones. Crazy by Gnarls Barkley sounds pretty good (in a horrendously over-played, please-go-away kind of way).

Camera shots look good on its super-sharp screen, but once transferred to a picture viewer on your PC, a lot of grain becomes apparent on indoor shots.

Wi-Fi set-up is quite easy and means you can listen to Internet radio stations on the phone, or surf the Web at high speed, using the excellent mini browser.

Turn on the UPnP media server via the phone's Home Network menu and the real fun begins. If you've got a network media receiver, such as the Pinnacle ShowCentre 200, you can connect directly to the handset and stream movies, music or pictures straight from the N80 to your TV. This is seriously cool - a phone that's part of your digital home.

The down side to all this wizardry is that battery life is poor - expect two days for normal usage or a single day if you hammer the Wi-Fi connection.

The phone's also perhaps a little over-sized, being fatter than average and 130mm when slid out to full length. Internal memory, at 40MB, is pretty paltry, but it does come with a 128MB MiniSD card, which can be expanded to 2GB for about £50.

This is a seriously desirable, if flawed, phone that points to the future. One day, all mobiles will be like this.